Teaching Interventions to Empower and Strengthen Families (TIES)

TIES is a FREE early intervention program targeting children six years and under. During program sessions, parent are trained to work in a classroom as a way to actively practice their skills they are learning.  It is staffed by both professionals and parents who have completed the program with their own children.

TIES is based on Tennessee's Regional Intervention Program (RIP), which began in 1969. In 2010, the RIP Expansion Program voted unanimously to grant the Cedar Rapids' TIES program full accreditation.

There is no cost to families to participate in the TIES program. Adult family members pay with their time. After completing the program they are asked to return and help train new families.

Here are a few of the many reasons parents come to TIES:

  • Aggression
  • Mealtime problems
  • Bedtime and sleeping issues
  • Running from adults
  • Destruction of property
  • Tantrums
  • Separation anxiety
  • High activity level
  • Non-compliance
  • Trouble at school

To learn more about our program, read a mom's blog regarding her TIES experience.
For more information email us or call 319/558-4861.

Additional resources:
     ricklavoie.com - information for parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities

 

TIES is a partnership of the ABBE Center for Community Health, Grant Wood AEA, Healthy Linn Care Network, Mercy Medical Center, St. Luke’s Hospital and the Linn County Community Empowerment.

 

 


For more information:
TIES Program
Email us or call 319/558-4861.